Hey you, yeah you. You can use this thread to show off your latest original comics art acquisitions and commissions. As I shall now demonstrate.
As I said in the old thread back on MW, I’d been left hanging a bit by a few artists including Nick Roche. Then, rather out of the blue, this Monday he got back in touch to say he was doing my pieces, only could I remind him on the details for them. Which I did, and paid, and now a few days later, they’re here. 
(no, the animated smilies have not got old for me yet).
So, the first piece is a sketch card for my Beast Wars collection. I had Nick do Dinobot, because I thought the big chinned bastard would suit his style and it really does. Love the smooth shading on him too.
The next two are more sketch cards for my Visionaries collection. I wanted the same artist to do the two factions’ leaders, Leoric and Darkstorm, to go as a centrepiece in the eventual framing arrangement.
Or maybe they’d work better the other way around?
Either way, love the way they turned out.
And the last piece was originally meant to be a pre-con commission for Auto Assembly 2015. It wasn’t done in time for the show though, so Nick gave it to me (free) as just pencils (I bought some prints too). I’ve carried around in my folder to shows for years on the off-chance I might get it inked, but never have and then when LFCC came around, I figured who better than Nick to ink it?
The original pencils:
And the inked version:
This is the first time I’ve had successive work done to a commission and I have to say, it is a little strange seeing a piece I’ve had for four years transformed like this. I didn’t have it displayed, because the pencils were too light to see, but I still knew it well and now it’s… different but also the same?
